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Being a Christian can be done in two ways. You can hear the message, believe it and tell yourself that you are a Christian, but your life continues in exactly the same way as before, except that you now go to church once a week. Many “Christians” live this kind of life.
Then there are the others, who hear the message, believe it, and decide to make God number One in their lives. Everything else now takes second place, and the focus is totally on God and His love, and what He has done to save us from our sins. These people are often called fanatics, but they have fallen in love with Jesus, and therefore want to become more like Him, and have a personal relationship with Him that draws them closer to Him every day. Nothing else is the same as it was before. All the things that before had been very important to them, sport, movies, TV, drinking, smoking, drugs, etc., now become irrelevant in their lives, as they try every day to get closer to Him. Their religion is not a once-a-week religion, but a 24/7 religion, in fact a 24/7 relationship with the Creator of the universe. They are not doing much of the things that they used to see as very important, because they find that these activities do not bring them closer to God, but rather seems to pull them away from Him. And so, bit by bit, they leave these things behind.
God wants each one of us to have a personal relationship with Him. In fact, if we don’t have such a relationship with Him, heaven is an impossibility for us. We don’t get to heaven by what we do, or even by what we know, but by knowing the One who had already done everything to get us to heaven. And that only comes by a relationship with Him.
1 Corinthians 10:31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
We have not really discussed movies, but the principle is, does what I watch bring me closer to God, or draw my attention away from Him? Are you in a close personal relationship with God, and are you learning about Him, and drawing closer to Him, every day? If not, some-thing is wrong, and you should work on that relationship. It is life-and-death important! God bless!
